Strengthening Your Faith During Financial Crisis

Ever since the stay-at-home orders were issued in March, my husband has been trying to keep our family afloat in the floodwaters of no work and stalled federal aid. And like so many others, as we roll into week seven we are trying to adjust to the COVID financial crisis. “I’m sorry Karen,” my husband Mike said, “but I had to …

4 Steps to “Bear-Proof” Faith

Is your faith strong enough to meet your biggest fear? We’ve all had bad dreams that were so real we had a hard time shaking them off. Mine is a recurring dream where I am being stalked by a bear. I have a bear phobia — a real one — I can’t even look at them in the zoo.** And …

Hold Onto Hope

  If ever we needed to hold onto hope, it’s now. Every day the news broadcasts some fresh horror that creeps closer to home. I don’t read every story, but I tune in enough to glimpse the chaos whirling past. It reminds me of a merry-go-round. Do you remember them? Most schoolyards had one and it was the hit of …

Finding Freedom from Fear

A re-post in the wake of my husband’s recent job loss and all the uncertainty that accompanies it. Questions about faith and God filled my mind as I tossed back and forth in bed– –then Fear came calling. Now, I know better than to allow Fear to get his foot in the door, but it was midnight and the week had been filled …

Devotional: When Loving God Hurts

I was reclining on the couch one evening reading when the call came, “Beth, I have a situation . . . ” Within minutes, a crisis launched me into action. It began that morning in another state with a rabid skunk and three curious dogs. My sister who had vaccinated my dogs along with her own, had recently moved out …